Hey everyone,
Ive just formatted my computer again and thought i had my email backed up (i dont really know where the email is kept in linux) when i got into my new install and copied the email back i found it was the wrong location.

So in order to combat this problem and for the other 3 computers in the house i would like to setup a program on my server which will be running linux so that it will download the pop3 emails from the accnts i specify and then they clients (outlook, thunderbird, kmail) will then connect to the server to retrieve the mail

Does anyone have any idea on how to do this? or can point me in the direction of a website that will explain how to...

Thanks in advance

fetchmail grabs email from pop3/imap mailboxs and delivers to the local system (might do what you want)

email is stored in 2 places for each user

1. Main Inbox (/var/spool/mail/USERNAME)
2. Other Mail Folders (~/Folder Name)

Yeah, fetchmail.

Mail can also be stored in ~/Mailbox (mbox format) or ~/Maildir/ (maildir format).

I run fetchmail + postfix + courier-imap (only maildir supporting imaps server i could find that worked).

While on this subject :)

Basically i have a bigpond email, and i want to be able to check it on both of my computers, which i can do now. But only drama is that once i check the email and receive it, the other computer doesnt know anything about it.

Is there a way i can set up my sever to recieve all the mail...and my 2 computers just view it? through outlook express?

There is an option in outlook to "leave a copy of the messages on the server"

maybe that will solve your problem

thanks for the info about fetchmail, it looks like it is what i need is there any good sites for tutorials you recommend? or any books?

and if you use qmail look at installing Sanitizer
http://www.impsec.org/email-tools/procmail-security.html

mad programme have been using it for years at work! no more viruses and keeps viruses out of end lewsers inboxes!

Postfix + MySQL + Courier IMAP + Amavisd-new + Spamassassin = THE WIN!

oh, and add Fetchmail into that as well :)

last edited by stinky at 09:06:40 31/Aug/04

stinky would you be able to give me some help in setting up that system when i get my server up and running... please add me on msn dynamitedane at hotmail

thanks

Sure thing. There's a lot of documentation and howtos on the Postfix website ( http://www.postfix.org ). This one is the closest one to the setup I usually run.

http://high5.net/howto/#postfixadmin

I have run a setup similar to this on an ISP level with 15,000+ mailboxes and several servers working together.